Dr. Michael Greger becomes Viva!’s Honorary Scientific Adviser
14/07/2016 |
Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured…
Sat Fat Spat 2
24/05/2016 |
A new report from the independent professional organisation, the National Obesity Forum, says avoiding butter, cream, cheese and other fatty foods is actually fuelling the obesity epidemic and accuses UK…
Over half a million vegans in the UK!
18/05/2016 |
Over 542,000 people in the UK are now vegan, up 360 per cent since the last count of 150,000 in 2006. Veganism is now Britain’s fastest growing lifestyle movement with…
Junk (food) journalism!
26/04/2016 |
More misleading headlines giving poor advice to the public… The study the headlines refer to was funded by a pharmaceutical manufacturer and looked at a very specific group of adults…
Buttering you up with fat lies
13/04/2016 |
This time the study, published in the British Journal of Medicine, re-examined old data taken from a nursing home and six state mental hospitals in Minnesota in the US between…
Eat to beat the silent killer
07/04/2016 |
WHO says there were 422 million adults living with diabetes in 2014, a fourfold increase since 1980. High blood sugar levels are a major killer – linked to 3.7 million…
And today’s misleading headline…
30/03/2016 |
This time the headlines say that long term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have found. Well, that’s not really what…
Why all the milk tantrums?
29/03/2016 |
Many people now accept that we ought to eat less meat and that, in fact, we don’t need to eat it altogether but it’s a whole different story with dairy.…
